Ignites hires Ponte to cover retail asset management

Brian Ponte

Brian Ponte has joined Ignites, an Financial Times Specialist title, as a reporter covering emerging tech and marketing in the retail asset management industry.

Ponte joined FT Specialist as a newsroom fellow in June 2021. In that role he contributed to other FT Specialist titles, including BoardIQ and FundFire.

He is a graduate of SUNY Purchase, where he earned a journalism degree and was a Mike McNickle Journalism Award winner. There, he was editor-in-chief of The Purchase Phoenix.

Prior to that he was editor in chief for The Viking News of Westchester Community College.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.